YouTube has removed the 2-million-subscriber account of exiled Ukrainian Journalist of the Year Diana Panchenko, a fierce critic of Vladimir Zelensky.

In 2023, Kiev imposed personal sanctions on the former TV presenter and started criminal proceedings against her for her alleged anti-Ukrainian reporting.

Panchenko has long criticized Zelensky for rampant corruption in Ukraine, as well as his clampdown on freedom of speech. She has also condemned Kiev's military actions in Donbass since 2014, and later accused the former actor of dragging the nation into a "forever war."

The Islamification of the West continues unchecked. Millions of third-worlders have been funneled into Western nations, especially France, Spain, Ireland, England, and Germany. Globalist rulers in Brussels have remained silent about the intentional invasion, while anyone voicing concern is immediately thrown into the state-run government censorship gauntlet and labeled a "racist."

It comes as no surprise that Brussels' failed open-borders experiment since 2015, flooding Europe with millions of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, has sparked not only a deepening identity crisis for Europe, but also fueled a powerful resurgence of nationalism across the continent.

Remember the primary way people used to sell things? Particularly the tinkers and snake-oil guys. They would try to trick you into believing what they were selling was something it wasn't. "Buyer beware" was the motto (well, not their motto, but one nonetheless).

The idea was, if you could get away with it, so be it. Getting "swindled," "hoodwinked," "duped," "conned," "bamboozled," "fleeced," "scammed," or best of all, "taken for a ride," was the name of the game. And if the tinker got you, it was your fault. The buyer had to be careful. Not too many felt sorry for their naïveté.

Then Big Brother came along. Laws were passed "protecting" the consumer. Big daddy government came to the rescue to help the poor stupid buyer who didn't know better. Thank God.

This is not entirely a bad thing. It isn't good to have swindlers freely functioning in a society, capturing people who are naive and incapable of protecting themselves from deceitful salespeople. But there is a shadow side to this that cannot be overlooked. It inadvertently trains people to stop thinking. They figure there is nothing out there that will cheat them, because big daddy is making sure they are protected, so they lose their skills of skepticism. They become dull thinkers and basically let anything go by without a lot of common-sense scrutiny. Gee, really? Is that what happens?

There was also a sort of "jungle justice" going on in society at the time tinkers roamed the streets. Before laws and ubiquitous law enforcement, people took things into their own hands. Ever hear of "tar and feather"? Bad folks who cheated people often got their just reward through the actions of vigilante-conscious neighbours looking out for their own. To avoid this, snake-oil salesmen didn't stick around to see what happened when his product went sour. He was immediately on the run to make certain he was not a victim resulting from the anger of a lot of disappointed customers.

So, how is all this different today? Well, there are still conmen, still snake-oil salesmen, still tinkers, but most of these roles have been taken over by the big boys. The folks who used to claim they were protecting us from the shysters have become the shysters. The snake-oil salesmen have obviously been taken over by Big Pharma and Big Medicine, the conmen are government and government agencies, the tinkers, well, the tinkers are still tinkers.

This week, the Trump administration reversed its decision to link disaster relief funds with loyalty pledges to Israel.

Originally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had published a statement declaring that states and cities had to certify that they wouldn't boycott Israeli companies in order to qualify for disaster relief.

Under DHS's standard terms and conditions it reads:

"Recipients must comply with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws material to the government's payment decisions. Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the laws of Israel to do business."

The story quickly made the rounds on social media, prompting it to remove the statement from its website.

Predictably, the government is denying that this was ever a policy.

"FEMA grants remain governed by existing law and policy and not political litmus tests," insisted DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin in a statement.

There are no official criteria for what constitutes membership in the upper echelon of the US military industrial complex, but a $10 billion deal that consolidates dozens of contracts under a single blanket purchase agreement sure makes it seem like Palantir has earned entry.

The US Army announced on Thursday that, rather than continue to buy Palantir products on one of 75 different contracts the branch has with the data analytics software company, it's awarding a ten-year Enterprise Agreement (EA) with the aforementioned cap of $10 billion. Like a standard blanket purchase agreement, the deal allows the Army to buy what it needs from Palantir over the course of a decade.

It doesn't appear that the Army is awarding Palantir any new contracts based on the press release or a procurement notice published about the contract in May. According to that document, the Army had figured out that it's doing so much business with Palantir over so many separate procurement actions that it's wasting a lot of time and money.

"Consolidating these efforts under an EA will streamline future modifications and task orders under a single set of ordering instructions and terms and conditions," the May publication pointed out. "Instead of managing dozens of contracts with varying terms, the government will empower a single team to manage the contract."

With 75 active contracts between the Army and Palantir, it's nearly impossible to track down what exactly the Army is using from Palantir, though we do have some ideas.

Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group.

In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as 'UNC6040' is targeting companies' employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data. This data is then used to extort companies into paying a ransom to prevent the data from being leaked.

In a brief update to the article last night, Google said that it too fell victim to the same attack in June after one of its Salesforce CRM instances was breached and customer data was stolen.

"In June, one of Google's corporate Salesforce instances was impacted by similar UNC6040 activity described in this post. Google responded to the activity, performed an impact analysis and began mitigations," reads Google's update.

Attorney General Pam Bondi warns of possible legal action against jurisdictions with uncooperative immigration policies

The Department of Justice identified nearly three dozen cities and states across the country on Tuesday that it said were sanctuaries for illegal immigrants and warned that it planned to take legal action against more of those jurisdictions.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement the cities and states, which mostly lean blue, have immigration policies that "impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design."

"The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country," Bondi said.

President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday that he has ordered his administration to create a new census, in which illegal migrants will not be counted.

The president — who has made immigration enforcement a top policy priority — ordered the Commerce Department to begin efforts on a new census based on figures that exclude the illegal migrant population and information gleaned from the 2024 presidential election. While estimates vary, some experts believe more than 18 million illegal migrants currently live in the U.S.

"I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024," Trump posted Thursday morning on his Truth Social account.

Citizens' mass protests in the UK express the majority's feelings.

Under the rule of leftist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the invasion of the British islands continues unabated - but now, the pushback from the citizenry has seemingly escalated beyond the point of no return.

This weekend, UK has grinded to a halt while 'asylum hotel' protests demanding 'remigration' take over major cities.

A cursory look shows that at least London, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton, Rotherham, Tamworth and Middlesbrough saw big demonstrations. British patriots fight back against the fraying of their social fabric due to the mass immigration catastrophe.

Elon Musk says DOGE employee 'beaten to the point of concussion' trying to save woman from DC assault

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to federalize Washington, D.C., calling for local minors and gang members over the age of 14 to be prosecuted as adults, after a famed former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee was allegedly beaten in the nation's capital.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said local youth and gang members are "randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released."

Along with the post, Trump shared a photo of a bloodied man on the street.

Multiple sources told Fox News Digital the person in the photo shared by the president is Edward Coristine, the teenager known as "Big Balls," who previously worked for DOGE.